Children with intellectual disabilities’ perceptions of their participation in activities in everyday life – a pilot study : A minor field study conducted in Ethiopia

Background: Children with disabilities living in low and middle income countries’ perceptions of participation are not shown in research. These perceptions are important for providing appropriate interventions. Aim: To describe how children aged 8-12 with an intellectual disability living in Ethiopia perceive their situation regarding participation in activities in everyday life. Method: A descriptive design with a quantitative approach was used. The sample was gathered using consecutive sampling. Fifteen structured interviews were conducted, using “Picture my participation,” an instrument under development. Analyses were made using SPSS Statistics and Microsoft Excel. Results: The children perceived that they participated in activities in everyday life. There was a broad variation in the activities the children prioritized as most important. On a group level, they were very involved in these activities. The majority did not experience any barriers to perform these activities. Conclusions: The perceptions of the majority of the children were that they were involved in daily activities. They did not experience any barriers to participation. The results should be read with caution and generalization is not possible, due to the sample characteristics and that the instrument is under development.

Barns och föräldrars upplevelser av barnsjuksköterskans bemötande inom barnonkologisk omvårdnad : 12 månader efter diagnostillfälle

Varje år drabbas 250-300 barn under 15 år av cancer i Sverige. Tidigare ansågs barncancer nästintill obotligt, men dagens framsteg inom medicin har gjort att allt fler barn överlever sin cancer och perspektivet inom hälso- och sjukvård har därmed ändrats radikalt. När barn drabbas av cancer påverkas hela familjen. I denna kaotiska situation är ett bra bemötande av största vikt. För att kunna ge ett bra bemötande och god omvårdnad till barnet och familjen krävs att barnsjuksköterskan har kompetens och kommunikativ förmåga. Även ett bra samarbete mellan barnsjuksköterskan och familjen är av stor vikt. Syftet med studien var att beskriva barns, två till fem år, och deras föräldrars upplevelser av barnsjuksköterskans bemötande inom barnonkologisk omvårdnad, 12 månader efter diagnostillfället. Studien är en kvalitativ studie med deduktiv ansats, där intervjuerna analyserats med innehållsanalys utifrån Swansons omvårdnadsteori. 12 barn i åldern två till fem år ingick i studien, och föräldrarna medverkade som komplement till barnens deltagande. Resultatet visar att barnsjuksköterskans bemötande har stor betydelse för barns och föräldrars upplevelser och välbefinnande i omvårdnaden. Viktigast för ett bra bemötande var delaktighet, tillgänglighet och kontinuitet, information samt att ha ett barnperspektiv. För att skapa bästa förutsättningarna för ett bra bemötande krävs att barnsjuksköterskan gör barnet och familjen delaktiga i vården, ser barnet som en individ och har kompetens och kunskap. Mer forskning behövs kring hur barn och familjer upplever barnsjuksköterskans bemötande och hur det påverkar deras upplevelser av vården, inte bara inom barnonkologisk omvårdnad utan även generellt inom pediatrisk omvårdnad.

En jämförelse av upplevd produktivitet samt arbetstillfredsställelse mellan aktivitetsaserade och traditionella kontor.

Purpose: The aim with this study is to compare perceived productivity and job satisfaction between activity based offices and traditional offices. The goal is to investigate, through a quantitative comparison, productivity and job satisfaction between the office types, and if generations perceive this differently. Method: The method used in this study is a quantitative method, in form of a questionnaire. The questionnaire used was taken from a study made by Sahlström and Severin (2015) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The same questionnaire was taken because it had already been quality assured and had good content for the survey. Four IT companies were included in the study. Two of them had activity based offices and two of them had traditional office type. Literature review has also been a method in order to get a deeper understanding of the subject. Findings: The results of the study show that there are differences between the two office types in perceived productivity and job satisfaction. The traditional office type showed the best results. However, this result can be discussed since the two traditional offices differed widely in their responses. The results also show that there are differences between the generations experiencing productivity and job satisfaction of the various offices. The elder generation, Baby boomers, shows better results on the traditional office type and the younger generation, Generation Y, shows better results on the activity based offices. Implications: One conclusion to be drawn from this is that employees at traditional offices are more satisfied with their working place and experience increased productivity than employees on activity based offices. However, these results may be due to other factors than how the office environment affects the employees. Therefore, these results will not be recommended. Another conclusion is that the Baby boomers are experiencing higher productivity and job satisfaction of traditional office and Generation Y experiences higher productivity and job satisfaction on activity based office. These results can be recommended. Limitations: The limitations of this study are to examine only IT companies in Sweden with a maximal amount of employees of 150 persons. The results are, apart from the scattered results in the first issue, generally valid and can be applied to other IT companies. To succeed fully applicable results, a survey with more companies involved had been better. Then, detections of anomaly would easier have been discovered and possible disregards of certain results could have been done. Keywords: Perceived productivity - Self-rated assessment of employees on their own productivity. Traditional offices - In this work traditional offices includes cell offices and shared rooms. Activity based offices - Office where employees have no fixed work place and there are often zones to support different types of working.